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Foyer or entryway is the first glance your guests and visitors have of your home. To create a best first impression, it is essential to decorate the foyer elegantly. Maybe you have a spacious roomy foyer area or a cute little foyer, but foyer is like a prelude indicative what is inside. When given enough attention, a neatly furnished, well-lit foyer can offer a warm welcome to your guests inside. Foyers /Entryways can be a challenging spot to decorate. Many times we have a long narrow foyer or a small cubicle with stairways occupying half the space. But with planning and patience, you can make any shaped foyer a beautiful looking space reflecting your own characteristic style at the same time remaining completely utilitarian with a side table, coat hanger and a shoe rack etc.

Let us see what all we may need to make a foyer attractive, chic at the same time functional? This is one place in your home that definitely should have enough storage space. You may need a coat rack, and shoe rack, simple but elegant light fixtures, some wall décor and definitely a mirror. You can add some door mats or carpet runners to add distinction and color to the space. Much like every room in your home, foyer needs effective and sufficient storage space. If space permits, think of investing in an armoire that can help in stashing your stuff like keys, scarves, books, mail etc. If you are strapped for space, floating shelves or wall brackets may help. A shoe bench with shoe storage underneath can be a wonderful addition to keep the shoes in order and out of sight.

A tiny foyer chandelier or a pendant light can add a luxurious look to the foyer. Actually you can get the foyer space painted or wall paper more luxuriously than other rooms. Because a glossy rich and expensive wall finish may give the guests a very good first impression and secondly, it is a small place and the cost may not be all that high. It is a good investment adding to the home value. Here are some beautiful ideas and furniture for foyer – entryway – decoration from Carolina Rustica. Look at the lovely chandelier! Surely the mirror will look exquisite on your wall! Don’t you think the narrow console table will be a perfect fit in your foyer? How do you like the unique-looking clock? The chic and slim coat rack looks so nice!

Go online and check how you can beautify your home foyer. Talk to the interior decorator and make a stunning looking entryway and impress your guests!

Lighting is another of the very important accessories to add to bathroom furnishings. When you have spent time and effort over selecting a vanity cabinet of your choice and also got a suitable mirror to match the vanity, it is now time to discuss with your favourite decorator/furniture dealer about proper light fittings for your bathroom. Imagine going out with a badly/patchily applied make-up! This is what happens when you do not have sufficient lighting to focus while you are dressing. All of us start our day at the bathroom and most possibly we spend some time there at the end of the day before going to bed. This is where we do many of our everyday tasks like dental care, hair care, shaving, bathing, dressing up and making up. Still many a time, bathrooms get a raw deal and end up with just one ceiling light.

Some of the areas in the bathroom need to be sufficiently well-lit – like the mirror over the vanity cabinet. This is the place where we spend time doing our daily grooming. For a smaller size mirror at the wash area – if the room is otherwise well-lit – one light over the mirror may be sufficient. But ideally, a pair of wall-mounted lights fixed on both sides of the mirror will look great and give shadow-free and sufficient light on your face when you need it most for applying makeup evenly. Suppose you have a large mirror or a pair of mirrors over the vanity, it is best to have a series of lights horizontally fitted in the ceiling above the vanity. If you like to relax with a book in the bathroom, you will need a light just over the toilet seat and/or a pedestal lamp nearby. If you like an opulent and luxurious look, you can go for a chandelier type cluster lights that can transform the bathroom dramatically.

With the number of options you have today, you can go for customized mirrors that come with built-in lights and vanity cabinets which come with extra details like built-in interior lighting within the shelf that gets switched on when you lift the top or open the door etc. Occupancy sensor switches, wall sconces, adjustable task lights, accent lights and vanity light dimmers are some of the innovative options you can incorporate into your bathroom lighting decor. Lights are indeed furniture that decorate and beautify your bathroom.

Bau Pendant a beautiful and creative suspension lamp has been architectured by Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt a very famous designer. The geometrical shape of the lamp is achieved by connecting many circular and semi-circular plywood pieces together. All these pieces are of different colors and have varied sizes. Even though these pieces are connected in chaotic form the lamp is a perfect decoration that could make any room look unusual and creative. It would look the best if situated in the center of a dining table or hanging from ceiling in the center of living room. The living room designs and beauty is important and this would add taste to your living room designs. It easily can become a centerpiece that will wake up people’s curiosity.

Spreading cheer and peace is the message of Christmas season. Year after year, we celebrate the coming of Christ with celebration all over the home. Lighting up the house, decorating with holly, wreath, having feasts with the whole family and friends, exchanging gifts with all and praying for peace and cheer to all – all are part of Christmas celebrations. No matter how big or small the house you are living in whether you are living in a high-rise or a small studio loft, whether you have extensive outdoor area or just a tiny balcony, Christmas celebrations are not complete unless you get to decorate your exteriors, your balcony with wreaths, green garlands, figurines and candles & illuminations to show that you are celebrating.

Be it small or large wherever you are doing the decorations, you can make it look as warm and beautiful as the interior of your home where you are busy decorating the home, trees and setting up the socks at the mantle place. And pay the same kind of attention to outsides so your home can look pretty inside and outside ready for the celebrations. What are the things that you can use to deck up the outside area? You can put up a near-life size Santa or a Snowman in glowing red dress and illuminate him nicely. Get one or two rein deer and keep them near the Santa. Today there are beautiful reindeer’s available which get illuminated when connected to the power point. You can get one of these!

Of course wreaths, garlands and bunting, greenery with illumination – what all the things you are putting up inside can be attempted outside. Place wreaths and greenery with illumination hanging on the outer frame of the front windows and front doors. Drape strings of lights along the threshold and rim and light up prettily. You can have console table or two – in the foyer and can have another just outside the door where you can light candles. If there is a stiff breeze, protect it with beautiful looking holders. There are colorful streamers with string lights connected. These look very festive and make the house look gay, warm, cheerful and really welcoming.

Here are some beautiful exterior decorations from American Sale. How gay the lit-Santa Clause looks! The lights are shatterproof globes in diverse colors. The illuminated reindeer looks just so real! And the red bells are a nice touch, how have you decorated your home?

What all go to make the Christmas tree so special? Stars and angels, bells and butterflies, gold and silver – all these make the Christmas something out of ordinary; telling us the joy and cheer the birth of Christ brings for us. Christmas always is associated with a Christmas tree, gifts and goodies, celebration and feast and happiness and joy forever. Christmas trees are everywhere – right from office, public places, hospitals, hostels and our own homes. Every tree gets decorated and illuminated to bring a measure of seasonal joy and cheer. Baubles, ornaments, garlands, holly, mistletoe, lights and gifts – all are used to make the tree look a mark of our happiness and pleasure in celebration.

For a perfect Christmas tree, choose the best tree available in a size that will fit the area where you are going to keep the tree. If you are buying a real tree, put it in water as soon as it is cut. Place the tree in a trough of water so that it feels hydrated and fresh. Keep replenishing the water. This will keep the tree plump and needles supple and fresh. Collect all the decorations that will be placed on the trees – string of lights, glitter, ornaments – glass and other stuff, garlands and what gifts you want to hang on the trees. Check whether you have sufficient number of all the decorations. Check for electrical plug point to which you can collect the string of lights that will illuminate the tree.

First you have to put up the electrical illuminations. Place the evenly and securely by starting from the base of the tree, placing interior lights first and then the ones at the exterior tips of the trees. Then start putting the garlands on the tree. Always place some interiorly first and then at the tips of the trees to give depth and layered look. When you start decorating the tree, check for solid shiny balls – simple ornaments in multiple colors and shapes that you can hang around creating a nice basic pattern of decoration. Then add the more glittery glass and special ornaments, stars and glitter. Place these more closely at the top of the tree for a more colorful and glittery look.

Here are some beautiful ornaments to hang on to the Christmas tree from Christmas Warehouse. Enjoy decorating your Christmas tree with such beautiful ornaments!

These beautifully designs and incredibly delicate and unusual lamps in the form of medusas and pendants are designed by talented designer Roxy Towry-Russell. If you are a beach person and love collecting shells or sea diving into deep seas and oceans then you surely will love and want to own these creative designs of lamps. It makes the room you decorate these with stand out and talk worthy of your taste too. These original light fixtures are made of plastic and can be hung on the ceiling. Several such lamps can easily force your interior look like undersea world. That is especially true for time when sun goes down and they start to produce a gentle light. Lights and decorative lights do help making interior designs and interior decoration much easier. Lights itself can add such glamour and taste to the interior of rooms be it bedroom designs or living room designs that you would not need to think hard to make your room glow.